cygnus @ cygnus @lemmy.ca

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More like Surely Wrong, amirite?

In addition to the complete lack of ethics, I don't understand how this even works as effective marketing. Are HR people supposed to see this racist content and think wow, this looks like a great company to do my recruiting?

I also believe gay marriage goes against God’s plan

I support same sex marriage (my church doesn’t) because I believe in freedom of choice

I applaud you for supporting same-sex marriage, but - apologies if this sounds like I'm picking on you, I'm really not - this is like someone who claims to be a young-earth creationist but agrees that radiocarbon dating is accurate. I don't understand how these mutually-exclusive thoughts can happily coexist in your mind. I wish we could discuss this over a drink because I'm very intrigued by whatever epistemic process led you there.

he supported the bill to ban gay marriage and that’s terrible,

but I’ve also heard that he left his politics at the door and treated everyone with respect, including the LGBT people at Mozilla

How on earth can you reconcile these two statements? "I respect you so much I'll pass a law to make you illegal"?

Not really. Mandarin for example has different characters for "he" and "she", but they are homophones ("ta", or "tamen" plural) so you can't tell who's who in spoken language. Hungarian doesn't use gendered pronouns and Finnish doesn't either (actually, now that I think of it, that may be where you borrowed yours - isn't it "hen" too?)

Thanks for the context - I still intensely dislike the "political" reaction, but people can learn and change. I also don't like that Canadian arch-jackass Tobi Lutke is a major supporter of the project; he's a bit like Brendan Eich. I'll reserve judgment until the browser launches. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it.

Interesting, thanks for the correction! I thought it was a medieval form that stuck around.

Masculine being the default was the case for English (and French) too, but not anymore, and certainly not by implying anything other than the masculine is "political".

I’m hoping it’s a cultural misunderstanding due to his Swedish background.

Jag pratar inte Svenska but I know enough that it has gendered pronouns just like English. Actually, it's better than English in that it preserved the neuter singular pronoun (which used to be "thou" in English) so there's even less excuse in terms of linguistic background.

You don't consider it rather exclusionary to imply that only men use computers?

There was a pull request to change "he" to "they" somewhere in the code and the dev refused, saying people should leave "their politics" out of it. I wouldn't say it's transphobic specifically - it may also be misogynistic. Either way, it doesn't look good.

Yeah, but it's cheaper than therapy.

I'm really torn about this comment - on one hand it's environment-destroying AI, but it also saves the need to watch a pointlessly long video that should have been an article and probably consumes as much compute as the AI summary.

First hands, then feet.

That's a weird element for the headline to focus on. From the article:

The NCCM says the woman, who is a local Pizza Pizza owner, saw a group of people, including teenagers, attempt to commit theft in the restaurant, and once she went to confront the group, the situation quickly turned violent.

Good point, but unless the ustashe independently invented it, I'd consider it a Nazi salute.

Maybe they're only a Nazi if they're a card-carrying member of the NSDAP, otherwise they're only a sparkling fascist.

How is a "pro-Nazi salute" different from a "Nazi salute"?

There's a Files desktop app, which will sync photo folders as regular folders.

I guess we have different definitions of cross-platform but I think it's unfair to leave Nextcloud out of the diagram when it has a memories app as well as one for facial recognition. it meets all criteria except an iOS app.

I'm reminded of that Talib who was interviewed after the US pulled out; he missed the revolution and his new office job was sucking all the fun out of life. Who'd have thought those guys would make terrible administrators.